The battle to take full control of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday. "Only a small part remains in the city, specifically the Old City," said Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani...

A gunman paused for a moment after entering an internet cafe in the Yemeni port city of Aden, approached Amgad Abdulrahman and pulled the trigger three times. As the 22-year-old law student -- a member of a cultural club set up by secularists -- lay dying, the gunman waved his pistol...

Iraqi troops have captured Mosul's al-Faruq neighborhood, in the northwestern side of the Old City, from Daesh (ISIS) militants, the military said. The district is located opposite the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque, which was destroyed by the militants last week. Daesh is still in control of...

Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of extremists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where Iraqi forces are battling the last ISIS group fighters. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Tamim walks past the body of an extremist half buried under the ruins of a...

An Israeli aircraft carried out a strike on Syria after 10 projectiles fired from the war-torn country hit the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, an army spokesman said. The Israeli Air Force also targeted two tanks of the "Syrian regime" in the northern part of the Golan, the spokesman...

A faction of Pakistan-based sectarian militants Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) on Saturday claimed responsibility for twin bombs that hit a market in the northwestern town of Parachinar, killing at least 50 people ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. LeJ's Al Alami faction said in a...

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government said on Saturday it was investigating reports that forces backed by the United Arab Emirates were running secret prisons in southern Yemen where detainees are subjected to torture and abuse. The UAE is part of a Saudi-led Arab alliance that...

Suicide bombers attacked a shopping district of east Mosul that was retaken from the extremists months ago, killing at least three people, medical and security officials said Saturday. The attack struck the Muthanna neighbourhood late on Friday as residents shopped ahead of the Eid al-Fitr...

A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque in Mecca as police disrupted a plot to target the holiest site in Islam just as the fasting month of Ramadan ends, Saudi security forces said Saturday. The Interior Ministry said it launched a raid around Jiddah, as well as two areas in...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that a future war waged by Israel against Syria or Lebanon could draw thousands of fighters from countries including Iran and Iraq. His comments indicated that the same array of Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias - but not countries -...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 502 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, including prominent businessman Hesham Talaat Moustafa, who is accused of the slaying of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim. Security sources said that among those pardoned was Hesham Talaat...

Turkey's defense minister warned on Friday that Ankara would retaliate against any threatening moves by the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria and welcomed a U.S. pledge to take back weapons from the group after the defeat of Islamic State. Washington sees the YPG as an essential ally in the...

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi is urging the West to change course in the Middle East in order to save the historic atomic deal, saying "the moment of truth has arrived". The accord, reached between Tehran and world powers in Vienna in July 2015, saw Iran drastically curb its nuclear...

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen could infect more than 300,000 people by the end of August, up from nearly 193,000 cases today, the United Nations said Friday. "Probably at the end of August we will reach 300,000" cases, UN children's agency spokeswoman Meritxell Relano told...

Chants against the Saudi royal family and ISIS mingled with the traditional cries of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" at Jerusalem Day rallies across Iran on Friday. The annual show of solidarity with the Palestinians, which sees hundreds of thousands take to the streets, was...

( The New Arab )- Fighters for the Islamic State group are targeting children in Mosul to prevent civilians from fleeing the city as Iraqi forces push into the last stronghold held in Iraq by the militants there, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN children’s agency said it has...

( The Guardian )- Iraqi forces have advanced to the base of the toppled minaret of Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri, hours after it was destroyed by Islamic State militants, as the bitter eight-month battle to recapture the city reached a tipping point. The destruction of the mosque marked a...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday there was high degree of certainty that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead, RIA news agency reported. Moscow said last week its forces may have killed the secretive ISIS leader, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and...

The Gaza Strip's sole power station has been fired up again, the energy authority in the Palestinian enclave said Thursday, after fuel supplies from Egypt helped to ease an energy crisis. The announcement came after Egypt delivered a million litres of fuel to the station on Wednesday, three...

Iran called on its regional rival Saudi Arabia on Thursday to free Iranian fishermen, pay compensation for killing a sailor and punish those behind the "irresponsible act", the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iranian media reported last week that Saudi border guards opened fire on...